Free Hand Fine Motor Mat Printables
Hands have so many great meanings for us. And I thought a hand fine motor mat would be great to have.
This is also a great way to explore the colors of skin of the world.
The hand fine motor mats have four mats templates, tracing, cotton swab and dot marker printables.

The Hand Fine Motor Mat Printables is a great addition to the fine motor mat printables on the site.
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What are Fine Motor Skills?
Fine motor skills involve using the small muscles in your hands and wrists to make precise movements.
This can be tearing paper, playdough, pencil control, or coloring with a crayon.
Hand Fine Motor Mat Printables
The Hand Fine Motor Mat Printables has four fine motor mats to use. You have a hand template printables, hand tracing printable, hand cotton swab printable and a hand dot marker printable.
You have a big hand with all the finger and the palm.
Hand Template Printables
You have two hand template printables. You have a single hand on the page and you have a version with 6 hands on the page. Each is great for fine motor skills.

Hand Tracing Printable
The hand tracing printable has the hand in the middle for kids to trace the outline of the hand.

Hand Q-Tip Printable
The hand q-tip worksheet has small circles for painting with a q-tip. The whole hand is filled with the small circles.

Hand Dot Marker Printable
The hand dot marker printable has the hand worksheet filled with circles about the size of a dot marker.

Books to Read with the Hand Fine Motor printables
Shades of People by Shelley Rotner is a great book that shorts just how ma y different colors you will see. Plus you will see people in different setting. She also has a board book version called All Kinds of People
All People Are Beautiful is a great book about diversity and acceptance in a colorful way. Each page is full the different types of colors, hair, sizes, and more. You will love to see all the different people and how beautiful they are.
Brown: The Many Shades of Love is another great book that looks that the different shades you can find skin color. And has great watercolor pictures.
Things to use with the Hand Fine Motor Printables
- printer
- white copy paper
- colored paper
- colored pencils
- crayons
- Crayola Colors of The World Skin Tone Crayons
- dot marker
- colors of the word markers
- colors of the word colored pencils
- pencil
- pencil grips – We love these!
- sheet protectors
- white cardstock
- dry erase markers
- playdough
- clear counters
- mini dot markers
- paint tray
- washable paints
- q-tip
- Shades of Me Construction Paper
Color of the World Crayons
For a lot of the activities we use the colors of the word crayons. They have 24 different colors for kids to use. You could also use the colors of the word markers and colors of the word colored pencils.

Ways to Use the Hand Fine Motor Mats Printables
You will see a few ways to use these hand printables with kids.
Ways to Use the Hand Template Printable
Here are a few fun ways to use the Hand template printable.
Color the Hand Worksheet
You can use the colors of the word crayons and color the hand. You can let kids pick the color they want to use. They are 24 to use.

Color the Hands with Different Colors
You can also use the colors of the word crayons and the 6 hands to color all the hands a different color. You can see slight differences in all the different shades

Use the Hand for a Playdough Mat
You put the page in a sheet protector or laminate it.
Then you can use playdough to outline the hand or you can use it to fill in the hand.
IF you use the sheet protector option then you might want to print the hard on cardstock.
Torn Paper Craft with the Hand
We used the shades of me construction paper to do a torn paper hand craft. You have five colors that you can use with kids. They can pick out the color they want to use.

Ways to Use the Hand Tracing Printable
You will see a few ways to use the hand tracing worksheet.
Trace The Hand with A Pencil
You can start off tracing the hand with a pencil. You can use a pencil with a pencil grip to help with those that have issues holding a pencil.
You can also use the colors of the word colored pencils for the tracing.
Trace The Hand with A Crayon
You can use crayons to trace the hand after you have used the pencil. That lets you trace the hand outline twice. You can color in the hand after you trace the hand.

Reuse the Hand Tracing Printable
You can also reuse the hand tracing worksheet. You can put it in a fine motor center. You can put it in a sheet protector or laminate it.
Then you use dry erase markers to trace the outline of the hand. That way you can use the page over and over.

Ways to Use the Hand Dot Marker Printable
You will see a few ways to use the hand dot marker printable.
Dot Markers the Hand
You can use dot markers to do that hand. Do a Dot Markers have a wide range of colors. You can pick those close to hand colors or just use any color you want.
We use a coral color dot marker below.

Clear Counters on the Hand
You can reuse the dot marker page. You can use clear counters or glass gems. There are several colors of glass gems.
But the rainbow colors of the clear counters are also fun. You can see the clear counters below.

Ways to Use the Hand Cotton Swab Mat Printable
You will see a few ways to use the cotton swab worksheet.
Paint with Cotton Swabs
You can use q-tips and washable paints in a paint tray and paint the dots on the hand. This is a great for fine motor. You can use the different paints to mix and make different skin tones.
This would be a fun paint mixing activity for kids as well. You can see our hand

Mini Dot Markers
You can also use the mini dot markers on the cotton swab page. They are perfect size for the cicles. You have a jewel tone colors and bright island colors.
What you will find in the Free Hand Fine Motor Mat Printables
- 1 Hand Templates
- 2 Hand Tracing Mats
- 1 Hand Q-Tip Mat
- 1 Hand Dot Marker Mats
- 5 pages

Winter Fine Motor Mat Printable Set
You have 17 fun winter fine motor mats together in a fun bundle. Easy to use and great to use all season.

What you will find in the Winter Fine Motor Mats Printable Set
- 13 Fine motor mats with a mix of templates, tracing, dot marker, q-tip and playdough mats.
- Fall Fine Motor Mats: Winter Fine Motor Mats include Basketball, Chinese Lantern, Christmas Tree, Clover, Fireworks, Gingerbread Man, Heart, Menorah, Moon – All the Phases of the Moon, Snowflake, Tooth, dreidel, Mitten, Hand, Penguin, Christmas Lights
- 94 pages
- Price: $4
More Hand Activities for Kids
Handprint Watercolor Painting is a great way to look at all the colors of skin in a fun hand watercolor painting.
Black History Weekly Packs are great for using for Black history month and with Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Black History Month Pack is another great resource to use with the handprint painting.
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